Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-04-01
FUR FARM HANDS.

The Only Safe Way In Which They Can
Acquire Property and Prosperity.
While writing on this subject have
a word for farm hands, as doubtless
many of them read your paper. l have
been an employer of help for nearly
thirty years, and as ] look back, can
trace the history of many of the young
men who worked for me- and without
an exception, those who saved the bulk
of their wages have become men of
property, while those who drew and
spent their wages as fast as they were
earned, are now living from hand to
mouth. | wish l could impress on
every Farmland who reads this, the
Importance of saving and safely invest
ing part of his wages as soon rs he is
master of his own time. If YOU save
one hundred dollars the first year you
work, it may be worth more to YOU than
thousand dollars a few years later.
would much rather a son of mine
should earn by his own labor one hun
dred dollars the first year he was
his own master, than to have him make
one thousand dollars by speculation,
and if / found that he had saved three
fourths of his wages, l should feel that
his financial future was safe. 1t is so
| easy to spend money, and the tempta-
tons are so many, that it is only here
and there one will save it. have had
four hands during the last five years,
and but one of them saved dollar on
| his year S work.
| know that it looks like slow wav
to get start in the world to lay up a
| paltry hundred dollars a year, but he
who does it, in a few years has enough
money to buy team and tools to begin
as renter, or to make a payment on a
piece of land which will be a home for
him. | have met at institutes and 9th
er farm gatherings during the last ten
years thousands of the leading farmers
of several States, and ] have often been
surprised to find that the best and
wealthiest among them began life Us
| farm-laborers, and have fought the bat
| tie of life single-handed. | have three
neighbors now who began as farm
hands within twelve years, who worked
! by the month until they saved five hun
dred or six hundred dollars each, and
who rented farms, and who have now
bought them. They were all young
men who took an interest in the work,
never thought of the ten hour-plan, and
whose wages were increased from year
to year When n young man is all the
time afraid that he will more than earn
his wages, he will rarely stay the second
year on a farm, but when he makes
himself Indispensable to his employer,
he usually stays at advanced pay 1t
took thInn n md IL To
save three hundred dollars, but those
three hundred dollars were worth to
me more than | could possibly have
foreseen at that time. There are
plenty of openings on the farm for
young men of pluck and principle, and
the chances of success are us good now
as when | started.-W. Il. Broom, IN
Country Gentleman.
Mrs. Mnks: 81 see the Empress of
Austria says she dearly loves Amer-
cans. Mr. Minks: ..Well! well! Is
she going to act or ep'-OmaAa
Word.
"A wise man Will never rust out. As
long as he breathes the breath of life,
he will be doing something for him
self, his country, or posterity. Wash
ngton, Franklin, Howard, Young,
Newton, all We're at work almost to the
last hours of their existence. Y
Ledger.
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This picture is entitled "Jonah and
the Whale" Possible Purchaser
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of the whales stomach, midway between
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chaser - Yes, Young Artist - That's
Jonah.-N. Y. Sun.
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